Seasonal concentrations of organic contaminants at the fall line of the Susquehanna River basin and estimated fluxes to northern Chesapeake Bay, USA

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 19, Issue 4 I, 2000, Pages 992-1001

  Foster, Gregory D ^a   Lippa, Katrice A ^a   Miller, Cherie V ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chesapeake Bay; Organic contaminants; Riverine fluxes; Susquehanna River

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANOCHLORINE INSECTICIDE; ORGANONITROGEN DERIVATIVE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RIVER POLLUTION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; PENNSYLVANIA; SUSQUEHANNA RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034063612     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620190428     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Prichard DW. 1952. Salinity distribution and circulation in the Chesapeake Bay. J Mar Rex 11:106-123.
2. U.S. Geological Survey. 1994. Water resources data, Virginia, water year 1994: USGS. Water Data-Quality Report VA-96-1. Reston, VA.
3. Velinksy DJ. 1977. A chemical contaminant mass balance framework for Chesapeake Bay. Chesapeake Bay Program Document CBP/TRS 176/97. Chesapeake Bay Program Office, Annapolis, MD, USA.
4. Chesapeake Bay Program. 1993. Chesapeake Bay fall line toxics monitoring program: 1990-1991 loadings. CBP/TRS 98/93. Annapolis, MD, USA.
5. Chesapeake Bay Program. 1994. Chesapeake Bay fall line toxics monitoring program 1992 final report. CBP/TRS 121/94. Annapolis, MD, USA.
6. Chesapeake Bay Program. 1996. Chesapeake Bay fall line toxics monitoring program 1994 final report. CBP/TRS 144/96. Annapolis, MD, USA.
7. Godfrey JT, Foster GD, Lippa KA. 1995. Estimated loads of selected organic contaminants to Chesapeake Bay via a major tributary. Environ Sci Technol 29:2059-2064.
8. Foster GD, Lippa KA. 1996. Fluvial loadings of selected organonitrogen and organophosphorus pesticides to Chesapeake Bay. J Agric Food Chem 44:2447-2454.
9. Greer J, Terlizzi D. 1997. Chemical contamination in the Chesapeake Bay. Maryland SeaGrant Workshop Synthesis Report UM-SG-TS-97-02. College Park, MD, USA.
10. U.S. Geological Survey. 1994. Water resources data, Maryland and Delaware, water year 1994: USGS. Water Data-Quality Report MD-DE-96-1. Reston, VA.
11. Hainly RA, Kahn JM. 1996. Factors affecting herbicide yields in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, June 1994. Water Resour Bull 32:965-984.
12. Breen KJ, Gavin AJ, Schnabel RR. 1994. Occurrence and yields of triazine herbicides in the Susquehanna River and tributaries during base-flow conditions in the lower Susquahanna River basin, Pennsylvania and Maryland, June 1993. In Hill P, Nelson S. eds, Toward A Sustainable Watershed - The Chesapeake Experiment. Publication 149. Proceedings, 1994 Chesapeake Research Conference, Norfolk, VA, USA, June 1-3, pp 312-328.
13. Foster GD, Foreman WT, Gates PM. 1991. Performance of the Goulden large-sample extractor in multiclass pesticide isolation and preconcentration from stream water. J Agric Food Chem 39: 1618-1622.
14. Foster GD, Foreman WT, Gates PM, McKenzie SA, Rinella FA. 1993. Determination of dissolved phase pesticides in surface water from the Yakima basin, Washington, using the Goulden large-sample extractor and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Environ Sci Technol 27:1911-1917.
15. Mullin MD. 1990. Standard operating procedures: Analysis of congeneric polychlorinated biphenyls and halogenated pesticides by high resolution gas chromatography. LLRS-SOP-ORG-013. Technical Report. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Large Lake Research Station, Grosse He, MI.
16. Schulz DE, Petrick G, Dunkier JC. 1989. Complete characterisation of polychlorinated biphenyl congeners in commercial Aroclor and Clophen mixtures by multidimensional gas chromatography-electron capture detection. Environ Sci Technol 23:852-859.
17. Anderson JW. 1991. Determination of congeners of polychlorinated biphenyls in reference materials. J High Resolut Chromatogr 14:369-372.
18. Harris DC. 1995. Quantitative Chemical Analysis, 4th ed. W.H. Freeman, New York, NY, USA.
19. Pait AS, DeSouza AE, Farrow DRG. 1992. Agricultural pesticide use in coastal areas: A national summary. Report by the Strategic Environmental Assessments Division, Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Rockville, MD, USA.
20. Klaine SJ, Hinman ML, Winkelmann DA, Sauser KR, Martin JR, Moore LW. 1988. Characterization of agricultural nonpoint pollution: Pesticide migration in a west Tennessee watershed. Environ Toxicol Chem 7:609-614.
21. Thurman EM, Goolsby DA, Meyer MT, Kolpin DW. 1991. Herbicides in surface water of the midwestern United States: The effect of spring flush. Environ Sci Technol 25:1794-1796.
22. Squillace PJ, Thurman EM. 1992. Herbicide transport in rivers: Importance of hydrology and geochemistry in nonpoint-source contamination. Environ Sci Technol 26:538-545.
23. Schottler SP, Eisenreich SJ, Capel PD. 1994. Atrazine, Alachlor, and Cyanazine in a large agricultural river system. Environ Sci Technol 28:1079-1089.23.
24. Albanis TA, Danis TG, Kourgia MK. 1994. Transportation of pesticides in estuaries of the Axios, Loudias, and Aliakmon rivers (Thermaikos Gulf), Greece. Sci Total Environ 156:11-22.
25. Pankow JF, McKenzie SW. 1991. Parameterizing the equilibrium distribution of chemicals between the dissolved, solid particulate matter, and colloidal matter compartments in aqueous systems. Environ Sci Technol 25:2046-2053.
26. Suntio LR, Shiu WY, Mackay D, Seiber JN, Glotfelty D. 1988. Critical reviews of Henry's law constants for pesticides. Rev Environ Contain Toxicol 103:1-59.
27. Patil GS. 1994. Prediction of aqueous solubility and octanol-water partition coefficient for pesticides based on their molecular structure. J Hazard Mater 36:35-43.
28. Pereira WE, Rostad CE. 1990. Occurrence, distributions, and transport of herbicides and their degradation products in the lower Mississippi River and its tributaries. Environ Sci Technol 24: 1400-1406.
29. Preston SD, Bierman VJ Jr, Silliman SE. 1989. An evaluation of methods for the estimation of tributary mass loads. Water Resour Res 25:1379-1389.
30. Quemerais B, Lemeiux C, Lum KR. 1994. Temporal variation of PCB concentrations in the St. Lawrence River (Canada) and four of its tributaries. Chemosphere 28:947-959.
31. Chevreuil M, Granier L. 1991. Seasonal cycle of polychlorinated biphenyls in the waters of the catchment basin of the river Seine (France). Water Air Soil Pollut 59:217-229.
32. Bremle G, Larsson P. 1997. Long-term variations of PCB in the water of a river in relation to precipitation and internal sources. Environ Sci Technol 31:3232-3237.
33. Thibodeaux LJ. 1996. Environmental Chemodynamics, 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, USA.
34. McGroddy SE, Farrington JW. 1995. Sediment porewater partitioning of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in three cores from Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. Environ Sci Technol 29:1542-1550.
35. McGroddy SE, Farrington JW, Gschewnd PM. 1996. Comparison of the in situ and desorption sediment-water partitioning of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls. Environ Sci Technol 30:172-177.
36. Anderson JE, Gianessi LP. 1995. Agricultural pesticide use in the lower Susquehanna River basin. National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, Washington, DC, USA.
37. Sporstol S, Gjos N, Lichtenthaler G, Gustavsen KO, Urdal K, Oreld K. 1983. Source identification of aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments using GC/MS. Environ Sci Technol 17:282-286.
38. Bidleman TF, Olney CE. 1974. Chlorinated hydrocarbons in the Sargasso Sea atmosphere and surface water. Science 183:516-5181
39. Iwata H, Tanabe S, Sakai N, Tatsukawa Y. 1993. Distribution of persistent organochlorines in the oceanic air and surface seawater and the role of oceans and their global transport and fate. Environ Sci Technol 27:1080-1098.
40. Simonich SL, Hites RA. 1994. Vegetation-atmosphere partitioning of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Environ Sci Technol 28:939-943.
41. Hopple JA, Foster GD. 1996. Hydrophobic organochlorine compounds sequestered in submersed aquatic macorphytes (Hydrilla verticillata (L.F.) Royle) from the tidal Potomac River. Environ Pollut 94:39-46.